Jacket



P. H. BAILEY April 22, 1941.

JACKET Filed May 20, 1958 [\"VENTOR. Bzrla'nsll. Bailey BY 7f W TORNEYS.

Patented Apr. 22, 1941 Perkins H. Bailey, New York,

N. Y. asslgnor to lvania Talon, Inc., a corporation of PennsyApplication May 20, 1938, Serial No. 209,084 1 Claim. (c1. 2-98) Myinvention relates to ments having a full length The invention solves thea slide fastener to a jacket front opening.

problem of applying or coat of sufficient jackets and like garfacing asat l5, thence downwardly along the length to extend substantially belowthe waist 5 line. In garments of this type, if a slide fastener isapplied in'the conventional manner the bottom or skirt portion is sotight that it will not allow the necessary freedom of action when thewearer is exercising or in sitting position.

According to my invention, a slide fastener is employed for closing thefront opening and is fastened directly to the fronts of the garment downto about the waist line and then extends into facings which areconnected to the bottom portions of the garment in such a way as toallow free movement and expansion of the lower end of the jacket. Inhave shown for purposes of illustration, one embodiment which myinvention may assume in practice. In this drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front view of a jacket embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a-detail view of the lower end of the jacket showing how thegarment is free to expand at that point; and

the accompanying drawing, I

Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2- I The jacket isgenerally of a conventional design having a right front panel 4, leftfront panel 5, collar 6 and sleeves 1. It may or it may not 30 have abelt 8, as desired, but it is of suflicient length to extendsubstantially below the waist line to provide askirt portion 9. The fulllength front opening I0 is closed by a slide fastener ll of any wellknown construction having a separable bottom end fitting II. The edgesof the opposite front panels 4 and 5 are folded over to provide flaps orfacings l3 which are preferably held in position by stitches l4extending down to about the waist line and running along close to thefastener. At about the waist line the rows of stitches ll terminate andextend across the edge as at Hi. This provides free flaps or tongues Hto which the slide fastener may be connected. The skirt portion of thegarment can thus expand because the inturned edges of the facings l3 arefree to move away from the inner face of the garment. This provides abellows eifect so as to give free-movement in sitting positions and atthe same time, it gives a neat closed appearance to the garment when thewearer is standing.

While I have shown and described in this application one embodimentwhich my invention may assume in practice, it will be understood thatthis embodiment is merely for the purposes of illustration and variousother forms may be devised within the scope of my invention as set forthin the appended claim.

What I claim as my invention is:

A garment of the class described of sufficient length to extend belowthe waist line and having a full length front opening, a slide fastenerextending substantially throughout the length of the opening, and meansconnecting the fastener to opposite sides of the garment. the attachmentof the fastener being close to the opening from the top down to theapproximate waist line in order to hold the garment snug around thechest of the wearer, the connecting means at the lower end including afacing of substantial width on opposite sides of the garment turnedunder the edge of the material bordering the opening and being free atits inturned edge from the front of the garment, and a flap carried bysaid inturned edges of said facing and extending back to and beingattached only front opening.

I PERKINS H. BAILEY.

